Achieving positive Outcome CIC provide move-on accommodation for those people who have been formerly homeless and we support them to be able to live independently.We house homeless vulnerable individuals between the ages of 25 and 65. The vast majority of our residents have a local connection, though we are seeing an increase in the number of people who have succeeded in being granted Leave to Remain in the UK.Support work is provided to monitor and improve physical/mental health, wellbeing and maintain long-term recovery from addiction. Residents are visited at least twice a week, though all the clients are encouraged to call in the office on a daily basis or as often as they feel they would like to.We agree support plans, which may include volunteering and other opportunities including college education. We believe that by providing in-house life skills training, debt and benefits advice and moral support we can assist many vulnerable adults into making positive lifestyle changes and securing a more fulfilling and socially inclusive way of life.It is extremely difficult of course to put a finger on a figure which might give an accurate Assessment of what we are able to achieve in terms of a cost saving for the Council. We could argue that we may save on people re-offending or being admitted to hospital based on some average figures. This is a figure which is very hard to be confident about when this is based on a “what might have happened” scenario.In conversations with managers at The Brick Project and other support providers it is clear that there is a “chronic lack of move-on accommodation in the town”. APO CIC will be able to free up the local hostels by moving people out into supported temporary independentliving and hence create vacancies in the hostel.We have continued to manage our tasks during lockdown and opened up lines of communication with our residents. We have set up Whatsapp Groups so we were able to keep our residents up to date on any relevant guidance and we were able to deal with any concerns as and when they arose.As the country slowly opens up and we continue to move around more freely we are looking forward to operating our service on a more regular basis from our office in leigh. We have received National Lottery Grant Funding of £9400.00. The bid was successful so we are able to develop a computer / training suite. This will benefit the residents and any other end user with development and training opportunities

The stakeholders within the CIC are the residents and those within the community who visit the office looking for advice and support. In consultation with the residents, we have aimed our support to deal with the issues that affect them the most they include re-housing, benefits and debt issues. In respect of APO CIC working with stakeholder agencies such as The Brick Project, Compassion in Action, Riverside Housing, British Red Cross and the CAB, they are all a valuable asset in equipping clients, with the skills required to live independently. Regular meetings are held so the partnership agencies can liaise and network.We are regularly in contact with the stakeholder agencies that directly affect the financial wellbeing of the residents these include the Department for Works and Pensions, Job Centre Plus, Wigan Housing Benefit and Revenues. We discuss issues such as delayed payments in housing and benefit entitlements, council tax reductions and exceptions etc.It is important that the residents can maintain their living standards so the sorting out of bills and finance is vital to them. We diarise appointments with the residents but also have an open-door policy so we can attend to immediate issues. During covid restrictions we have kept the residents up to date and dealt with any stakeholders queries if their service was available.

Directors’ remuneration of £18,402 was paid during the year. Rent of £26,400 was paid to Directors for the property. This is deemed market value based on previous rentals. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration